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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






2. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






3. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.






4. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






5. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






6. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.






7. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






8. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






9. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






10. The organizational form of a literary work.






11. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






12. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






13. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.






14. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






15. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






16. A three-line stanza.






17. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






18. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






19. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.






20. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.






21. What a story or play is about.






22. A four line stanza in a poem.






23. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.


24. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






25. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.






26. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






27. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






28. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.






29. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






30. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






31. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






32. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






33. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






34. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






35. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






36. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.






37. The main character of a literary work.






38. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






39. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






40. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






41. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






42. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






43. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






44. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






45. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






46. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.






47. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.






48. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.






49. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.






50. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.